GeForce GT 310 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which features clock speeds of 1410 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 4864 SPUs as well as 152 TAUs and 80 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 310		31 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
	Difference: 169 Watts (545%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GT 310 should in theory be a little bit superior to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 310		16000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 16000 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is much (more or less 4448%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 310. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 310		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 209608 (4448%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 310		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 110444 (4688%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.